"In prison, illusions can offer comfort."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Comfort Quotes #Prison Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.”
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

Source : Khawaja Abdur Rahim, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1968). “Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow”
“I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.”
“Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.”
“It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.”

Source : Beaumont Newhall (1984). “In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall”
“He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it.”
“Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.”
“What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore?”

Source : Song: What's Forever For

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